money.cnn.com— This is a great article from CNNMoney that talks about the benefits of ethanol and how it could become a major player in automobiles very soon.
Jan 30, 2006View in Crawl 4
I do not know if Ethanol will be the way of the future. But using wast products to make Ethanol i.e. the part we do not eat. Take General Mills for example what happens when a batch of soup or salsa is bad and they have to throw it away, it is a wast product that is thrown away or sold as feed to farmers why not use that. As far as it being bad for your car there is a way to make it safe. We will always use Oil but do we have to use as much. Using Ethanol, hybrid technology, fule cells and other means will lessen our dependancy on oil thus we should be able to reach a happy medium.
There is only one potential plant based fuel that would be sustainable! It is not ethanol. Most plant based fuels are not sustainable because of two main reasons. It takes large of an amount of energy to grow and process the the fuel source, plants. Or, it displaces food crops due to the limited arable land. this includes ethanol and large scale biodesiel. Biodesiel which is made from waste oil is good but there is not enough waste oil and so "virgin oil must be used to achieve large scale replacement of gasoline....the short form of my comment is this cnn story is crap.
CNN is stupid. Ethanol is less effeceint, costs more, and is actually MORE harmful to the environment. If Ethanol is used on a grand scale it will cause farmers to over farm the land and pollute it with pesticides so their cash crop doesn't die on them. It's better we focus on developing Hydrogen into a cost-effective energy source and having the government mandate a plan to convert to an all hydrogen economy within a time frame. Ethanol is far too short-sighted to solve our problems. If you dug this, you're not too bright.
Hey, here's what I'm framing my alt-fuel decision by: check out my digg to Chuck Klosterman's (author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs) article about why he SUPPORTS Ethanol. He's also got a synopsis on the current (s**tty) economics of the modern farmer on the page. Here's the link straight to it: www.esquire.com/ESQ0506KLOSTERMAN_66 (The article was originally published in Esquire Magazine.)
diggluggJan 30, 2006
sounds like another pump dream... sorry folks, belly up to the last drop saloon, there is no cheap replacement to oil.
digitalwarriorJan 30, 2006
I do not know if Ethanol will be the way of the future. But using wast products to make Ethanol i.e. the part we do not eat. Take General Mills for example what happens when a batch of soup or salsa is bad and they have to throw it away, it is a wast product that is thrown away or sold as feed to farmers why not use that. As far as it being bad for your car there is a way to make it safe. We will always use Oil but do we have to use as much. Using Ethanol, hybrid technology, fule cells and other means will lessen our dependancy on oil thus we should be able to reach a happy medium.
jeremy66158Jan 30, 2006
There is only one potential plant based fuel that would be sustainable! It is not ethanol. Most plant based fuels are not sustainable because of two main reasons. It takes large of an amount of energy to grow and process the the fuel source, plants. Or, it displaces food crops due to the limited arable land. this includes ethanol and large scale biodesiel. Biodesiel which is made from waste oil is good but there is not enough waste oil and so "virgin oil must be used to achieve large scale replacement of gasoline....the short form of my comment is this cnn story is crap.
elroyJan 30, 2006
ethanol is a joke.
dv8withn8Jan 31, 2006
CNN is stupid. Ethanol is less effeceint, costs more, and is actually MORE harmful to the environment. If Ethanol is used on a grand scale it will cause farmers to over farm the land and pollute it with pesticides so their cash crop doesn't die on them. It's better we focus on developing Hydrogen into a cost-effective energy source and having the government mandate a plan to convert to an all hydrogen economy within a time frame. Ethanol is far too short-sighted to solve our problems. If you dug this, you're not too bright.
nathanfordAug 11, 2007
Hey, here's what I'm framing my alt-fuel decision by: check out my digg to Chuck Klosterman's (author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs) article about why he SUPPORTS Ethanol. He's also got a synopsis on the current (s**tty) economics of the modern farmer on the page. Here's the link straight to it: www.esquire.com/ESQ0506KLOSTERMAN_66 (The article was originally published in Esquire Magazine.)